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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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It’s just the extent they have to pivot and the time scale they have to pivot in is the most extreme any of us have ever seen.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Add in crypto scandals, regulatory uncertainty and years of extreme volatility, and retail investors were simply exhausted.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

The minister has highlighted the inequity that Nepal should suffer the extreme impacts of climate change when it has one of the world's lowest per-capita carbon emissions.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

The program trains students from a range of disciplines to develop strategies for addressing resource scarcity, climate change, and extreme weather events, as well as food, water, and energy crises.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

Kok, a Dutch businessman of extreme wealth, was president of a Belgium-based banking company, SWIFT, and was responsible for organizing several international tournaments.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

The challenge for brands is to acknowledge that development without endorsing the extremes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

As tai chi doesn’t push extremes, it may feel counterintuitive in Western culture; but that’s part of its power, Swanson says, likening tai chi to water.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

There is "clearly an impact from climate change on the property market", he said, pointing to challenges such as heatwaves, wildfires and other weather extremes.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Hazel and his companions had suffered extremes of grief and horror during the telling of Holly’s tale.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Hence the extremer Puritans were completely out of touch with the sensuous poetry of Christmas, a festival which, as we shall see, they actually suppressed when they came into power.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

But even the French Revolution had its humors; and as the English Puritan Revolution gathered head and the extremer sectaries pressed to the front—Quakers, New Lights, Fifth Monarchy Men, Ranters, etc.,—its grotesque sides came uppermost.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

But even the French Revolution had its humors; and as the English Puritan Revolution gathered head and the extremer sectaries pressed to the front—Quakers, New Lights, Fifth Monarchy Men, Ranters, etc.—its grotesque sides came uppermost.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

The extremer the physical effort, the greater the strain on the inner or moral powers.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park

For such persons as Lydia it has added dignity and joy to a woman's life, without the fever and disorganization which attend its extremer forms.

From The Mating of Lydia by Mrs. Humphry Ward

The printing press, praised by Martin Luther as “God’s highest and extremest act of Grace,” led to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation — and a century of bloody religious wars.

From Washington Post Dec. 20, 2016

Now even the extremest obscenities have lost their power to shock.

From The Guardian May 23, 2013

The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had."

From Time Magazine Archive

“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

To the same class belongs Panebianco, a zealous friend of the extremest claims of the Bourbons.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger




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